15 Female Rappers to Watch in 2015

2014 was the year of Nicki Minaj and Iggy Azalea, and now there’s a tough new breed of female rappers ready to take on the traditionally male world of hip hop in 2015. It’s a hard genre for women to break into, as a quick scan of the Top 40 will prove. You’ll find Nicki and Iggy are the only ones who are female in between all the Drakes, Eminems, Waynes, Jays, Kanyes, Coles etc on the chart. But in 2015 we’re……

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On Tuesday, Dec. 10, Nitty Scott, MC took to Twitter to criticize the media for touting certain female rappers as the next big things. That series of tweets focused mostly on calling out Kreayshawn, Lola Monroe, Iggy Azalea, Diamond and Tiffany Foxx as poor choices for the “next strong feminine hip-hop influence,” but she elaborated today, Dec. 11, in a thoughtful Tumblr post. Scott addressed everything from identity and diversity to equality and gender in hip-hop. If male rappers aren’t called out as male, she asked, why is it different for women? con’t:http://www.xxlmag.com/news/2013/12/nitty-scott-mc-wants-to-close-hip-hop-gender-gap/